Toroidal field instability and eddy viscosity in Taylor-Couette flows

Details Toroidal field instability and eddy viscosity in Taylor-Couette flows Toroidal field instability and eddy viscosity in Taylor-Couette flows

2008-09-02

arxiv.org/abs/0809.0414v1

Astron. Nachr. 329, 709 (2008)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1002/asna.200811020

Toroidal magnetic fields subject to the Tayler instability can transport angular momentum. We show that the Maxwell and Reynolds stress of the nonaxisymmetric field pattern depend linearly on the shear in the cylindrical gap geometry. Resulting angular momentum transport also scales linear with shear. It is directed outwards for astrophysical relevant flows and directed inwards for superrotating flows with dOmega/dR>0. We define an eddy viscosity based on the linear relation between shear and angular momentum transport and show that its maximum for given Prandtl and Hartmann number depends linear on the magnetic Reynolds number Rm. For Rm=1000 the eddy viscosity is of the size of 30 in units of the microscopic value.

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